A simple fix, is not known, where there is no routine for data backup.
Please do not trust ‘the cloud’ for storing data that is important to you.
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Windows OS users will find the BraveSoftware folder at:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\
That folder should routinely be backed up to an external drive - in other words, to a location OUTSIDE of the Brave Browser installation paths.
Use WinZip or 7-Zip (or another application of your choice) in order to make a .zip compressed copy of the BraveSoftware folder; and place such copies on the external, attached drive, in addition to wherever you wish, OUTSIDE of the Brave Browser installation paths.
Use a filenaming convention in order to keep track of the backup dates-and-times, example: 20220626-0238_Sunday_BraveBrowser_bkup.zip
Make backups, a routine.
Manually back up your Bookmarks - using the Brave Browser > Bookmarks Manager > Export Bookmarks.
You may Export passwords that you have stored via the Brave Browser Password Manager, to .CSV files (any questions, ask @CerealLover).
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Daily Create a New System Restore Point. Create such System Restore Points BEFORE doing anything that you may wish . . . that you had done so.
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Previous posts at the Brave Community, regarding how to recover passwords:
Among those posts, there is one possible fix:
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Hard lessons . . .
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Data gone:
https://community.brave.app/search?q=data%20gone%20order:latest
Data lost:
https://community.brave.app/search?q=data%20lost%20order:latest
Passwords gone:
https://community.brave.app/search?q=passwords%20gone%20order:latest
Passwords lost:
https://community.brave.app/search?q=passwords%20lost%20order:latest
Bookmarks gone:
https://community.brave.app/search?q=bookmarks%20gone%20order:latest
Bookmarks lost:
https://community.brave.app/search?q=bookmarks%20lost%20order:latest
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